[M3devel] m3cc build fails on older MacOS X

[Tony Hosking]

Does anyone really care about 10.3 now?  As I recall, it had some  
pretty broken assumptions.

On Sep 30, 2008, at 9:25 AM, Jay wrote:

>
> I have a machine running 10.3 now.
>
> gcc-4.3.2 (the current release) won't (toplevel) configure on MacOSX  
> 10.3 apparently because its assembler doesn't support ".machine".
> Current "cctools" won't compile on 10.3 without patches or other  
> updates, due to mucking with ppc64 stuff, though that is easy to fix.
>
> A simple wrapper around as for use on 10.3 that strips the .machine  
> directive is probably reasonable, or a patch to gcc to just not emit  
> it for Darwin, except maybe for non-ppc, or subject to a switch.
>
> Other than support for more architectures, I never found any of the  
> updates beyond 10.2 very interesting.
> Though current Firefox and Safari also won't run on 10.3.
>
> IF I get this working, maybe I'll bring 10.2 back up also..
>
> - Jay
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: jayk123 at hotmail.com
> To: wagner at elegosoft.com; m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Subject: RE: [M3devel] m3cc build fails on older MacOS X
> Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 10:49:11 +0000
>
>
>
>
> I don't know what these Darwin versions are.
> Mac OSX 10.0? 10.1? 10.2? 10.3? 10.4? 10.5?
> I used to run 10.2 and could perhaps bring it back (though I'd hate  
> to lose my PPC_LINUX install.. :( )
>
>> make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
>> Makefile:191: *** Insufficient number of arguments (2) to function
>> `patsubst'. Stop.
>
> Hopefully that's enough context though.
>
> The rest is a cascade.
> What happens if you remove all my m3makefile wierdness (which works  
> everywhere else..) and just configure and make?
>
> Can I ssh into this?
>
> - Jay
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
>
>> Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 07:57:54 +0200
>> From: wagner at elegosoft.com
>> To: m3devel at elegosoft.com
>> Subject: [M3devel] m3cc build fails on older MacOS X
>>
>> On % uname -a
>> Darwin apple.local 7.9.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0: Wed Mar 30
>> 20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power
>> Macintosh powerpc:
>>
>> echo ./regex.o ./cplus-dem.o ./cp-demangle.o ./md5.o ./alloca.o
>> ./argv.o ./choose-temp.o ./concat.o ./cp-demint.o ./dyn-string.o
>> ./fdmatch.o ./fibheap.o ./filename_cmp.o ./floatformat.o ./fnmatch.o
>> ./fopen_unlocked.o ./getopt.o ./getopt1.o ./getpwd.o ./getruntime.o
>> ./hashtab.o ./hex.o ./lbasename.o ./lrealpath.o
>> ./make-relative-prefix.o ./make-temp-file.o ./objalloc.o ./obstack.o
>> ./partition.o ./pexecute.o ./physmem.o ./pex-common.o ./pex-one.o
>> ./pex-unix.o ./safe-ctype.o ./sort.o ./spaces.o ./splay-tree.o
>> ./strerror.o ./strsignal.o ./unlink-if-ordinary.o ./xatexit.o
>> ./xexit.o ./xmalloc.o ./xmemdup.o ./xstrdup.o ./xstrerror.o
>> ./xstrndup.o> required-list
>> make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
>> Makefile:191: *** Insufficient number of arguments (2) to function
>> `patsubst'. Stop.
>> make: *** [all-libcpp] Error 2
>> /bin/sh: line 1: cd: gcc: No such file or directory
>> make: *** No rule to make target `s-modes'. Stop.
>> "/Users/wagner/work/cm3/m3-sys/m3cc/src/m3makefile", line 314: quake
>> runtime error: unable to copy "./gcc/m3cgc1" to "./cm3cg": errno=2
>>
>> --procedure-- -line- -file---
>> cp_if --
>> postcp 314 /Users/wagner/work/cm3/m3-sys/m3cc/src/m3makefile
>> include_dir 360 /Users/wagner/work/cm3/m3-sys/m3cc/src/m3makefile
>> 9
>> /Users/wagner/work/cm3/m3-sys/m3cc/PPC_DARWIN/m3make.args
>>
>> Fatal Error: package build failed
>> ==> m3-sys/m3cc done
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Olaf
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